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Miller-Moore dunks dazzle, honor Frayer
3/31/2022 8:41:00 PM | Men's Basketball
GCU slam artist narrowly misses reaching finals on ESPN
NEW ORLEANS — Sean Miller-Moore put Grand Canyon basketball on a national stage, unleashed a pair of dunks that earned perfect scores and honored his late friend and teammate, Oscar Frayer, in doing so on Thursday night.
Winning the Great Clips Slam Dunk Championship would have been a bow, but Miller-Moore's showing already was a gift for Lope Nation after thinking it had seen the last of him in a GCU uniform.
"What a night ... love everyone that supported," Miller-Moore tweeted after the ESPN event.
Miller-Moore put on his GCU purple again when he posted the only first-round perfect score among eight competitors and then changed into Frayer's white No. 4 jersey for two dunks in the semifinal round. Frayer died in a car accident on March 23, 2021, just three days after he and Miller-Moore played in the Lopes' first NCAA Division I tournament appearance against Iowa.
The GCU graduate impressed a judging panel of NFL stars Alvin Kamara and Ja'Marr Chase, ESPN analyst Jay Bilas and celebrity satirist Annie Agar for a perfect score with his first dunk on the ESPN telecast. Miller-Moore began at the 3-point line from the right side, threw the ball into the lane, grabbed it off the bounce and put the ball through his right leg with a reverse finish.
"He is a high flyer," Bilas said of Miller-Moore, evoking the nickname of Frayer.
After a long layoff for the men's and women's 3-point contests, Miller-Moore changed into the Frayer jersey and earned another perfect score by taking the ball behind his right leg and slamming a two-hand reverse.
Miller-Moore, Houston's Taze Moore and Wake Forest's Alondes Williams each landed perfect scores on the first of two semifinal dunks and Miller-Moore needed a repeat when Moore and Williams scored 40s against on the round's second dunks.
Miller-Moore created a worthy dunk, enlisting his frequent GCU alleyoop partner Holland Woods II. Woods, in town for this weekend's 3X3U National Championship, ran ahead of Miller-Moore along the baseline and put a pass off the stanchion behind the backboard. Miller-Moore attempted to catch the ball with his left hand and go through his legs to his right hand but could not finish the dunk on his three allotted attempts. The fourth try wowed the crowd when he pulled off the dunk, but it did not count.
Moore, who GCU fans knew when he played at CSU Bakersfield, won the contest.
It was the second time that a GCU player nearly won at the College Slam Dunk and 3-Point Challenge. In 2017, Lopes guard DeWayne Russell was the 3-point challenge's runner-up when the event was staged at GCU Arena.
Winning the Great Clips Slam Dunk Championship would have been a bow, but Miller-Moore's showing already was a gift for Lope Nation after thinking it had seen the last of him in a GCU uniform.
"What a night ... love everyone that supported," Miller-Moore tweeted after the ESPN event.
Miller-Moore put on his GCU purple again when he posted the only first-round perfect score among eight competitors and then changed into Frayer's white No. 4 jersey for two dunks in the semifinal round. Frayer died in a car accident on March 23, 2021, just three days after he and Miller-Moore played in the Lopes' first NCAA Division I tournament appearance against Iowa.The GCU graduate impressed a judging panel of NFL stars Alvin Kamara and Ja'Marr Chase, ESPN analyst Jay Bilas and celebrity satirist Annie Agar for a perfect score with his first dunk on the ESPN telecast. Miller-Moore began at the 3-point line from the right side, threw the ball into the lane, grabbed it off the bounce and put the ball through his right leg with a reverse finish.
"He is a high flyer," Bilas said of Miller-Moore, evoking the nickname of Frayer.
After a long layoff for the men's and women's 3-point contests, Miller-Moore changed into the Frayer jersey and earned another perfect score by taking the ball behind his right leg and slamming a two-hand reverse.
Miller-Moore, Houston's Taze Moore and Wake Forest's Alondes Williams each landed perfect scores on the first of two semifinal dunks and Miller-Moore needed a repeat when Moore and Williams scored 40s against on the round's second dunks.
Miller-Moore created a worthy dunk, enlisting his frequent GCU alleyoop partner Holland Woods II. Woods, in town for this weekend's 3X3U National Championship, ran ahead of Miller-Moore along the baseline and put a pass off the stanchion behind the backboard. Miller-Moore attempted to catch the ball with his left hand and go through his legs to his right hand but could not finish the dunk on his three allotted attempts. The fourth try wowed the crowd when he pulled off the dunk, but it did not count.
Moore, who GCU fans knew when he played at CSU Bakersfield, won the contest.
It was the second time that a GCU player nearly won at the College Slam Dunk and 3-Point Challenge. In 2017, Lopes guard DeWayne Russell was the 3-point challenge's runner-up when the event was staged at GCU Arena.
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On to the finals with the High Flyer 💜#O4Ever
— GCU Men's Basketball (@GCU_MBB) April 1, 2022
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Perfect 40. 👀
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